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Dispatch from Fall Fashion Week

A couple of weeks ago I received an invitation to tonight's Nanette Lepore fall runway show. As a fashion aficianado, but generally too broke to "invest" in anything other than a couple of staple, I was looking forward to this glimpse into the lives of the glamfabulous.

I wondered about what I'd wear to fit in with such a chic crowd. Then I realized I should not try to look too hip because I was not going to be turning any heads. And to top it off, I've been fighting off a cold, so regardless of how sucessful I was in pulling off my imposter look, I just wasn't that into it. I was more concerned I'd sneeze or cough at an inopportune moment.

Despite it all, I did manage to learn some valuable tidbits about the fashion industry tonight.

1. During Fashion Week, everyone pretends to be a celebrity. Some of them may be, but everyone in the audience tried to out-hip the other. And we weren't even at the hottest show of the night - Heatherette. (As proof of my lack of real fashion stature, I'd not even heard of Heatherette before I entered Nanette.)

2. Kristen from "Laguna Beach" is really milking her 15 minutes of fame. She's going to make a career out of this. Shockingly good luck.

3. Models lean backwards at unnatural angles when they walk. Rather than walking perpendicularly to the ground, they walk 30 degrees right of upright, with their shoulders pulled back, hips thrust forward, arms swinging at their sides. Watching hours of "America's Next Top Model" didn't prepare me for the strut that is the runway walk. Which I, of course, in all my faux-trendy aspirations, attempted to mimic once I returned to the "safety" of the Bowery.

posted by venus de kilo @ 10:28 PM